Compare two Color objects

Question

This is VS2010 and .NET 4.0. I\'m trying to compare two System.Drawing.Color objects.

The value of mStartColor.ToArgb() is 16777215

Answer 1

Colour structs have more data contained in them, than just the actual colour information, such as

Color [Transparent] 
R: 255 
G: 255 
B: 255 
A: 0 
IsKnownColor: True 
IsEmpty: False 
IsNamedColor: True 
IsSystemColor: False 
Name: Transparent 

Color.FromArgb(16777215)

Color [A=0, R=255, G=255, B=255] 
R: 255 
G: 255 
B: 255 
A: 0 
IsKnownColor: False 
IsEmpty: False 
IsNamedColor: False 
IsSystemColor: False 
Name: ffffff 

Equals comparisons will use all of these to determine equality. you should be diong what you already suggested, and use:

Color.Transparent.ToArgb().Equals(mStartColor.ToArgb())